Platform Rebrands as IBM Spectrum Computing with Focus on HPDA

Today IBM expanded its portfolio of software-defined infrastructure solutions with cognitive features to help clients improve the management of computing resources to achieve faster, results from data-driven applications and analytics. As part of the announcement, the company has rebranded its Platform computing software as IBM Spectrum Computing. “IBM Spectrum Computing software includes IBM Spectrum Conductor, IBM Spectrum LSF and IBM Spectrum Symphony. The expanded software-defined computing portfolio complements the IBM Spectrum Storage software-defined storage family.”

OCF Deploys Fujitsu HPC Cluster at University of East Anglia

OCF in the U.K. recently deployed a new Fujitsu HPC cluster at the University of East Anglia. As the University’s second new HPC system in 4-years, the cluster can be easily scaled and expanded in the coming months through a framework agreement to match rapidly increasing demand for compute power.

Job of the Week: Senior HPC Grid Engineer at Citigroup

Citigroup in Irving, Texas is seeking a Senior HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week.

IBM Platform Computing – Ready to Run Clusters in the Cloud

Demands by users that are running applications in the scientific, technical, financial or research areas can easily outstrip the capabilities of in-house clusters of servers. IT departments have to anticipate compute and storage needs for their most demanding users, which can lead to extra spending on both CAPEX and OPEX once the workload changes.

Helping Scientists with System Management Software

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie writes that while end-user scientists and engineers fear the complexity of running jobs in HPC, there are software toolkits available to help.